jQuery AJAX Array Response

[bobbonew]

Hey all. I have been able to do fun jquery stuff with the return response, but now on an ajax query I need to get multiple things out of the return.

For instance, if my return is:

Array
(
 [body] => Your not really funny.
 [guestName] => bobbonew
)

How do I get the information out of there with jquery?

All I can figure out is:

/* .... */
success: function(data){
/*manipulate the return*/
}

And can pretty much do anything with just the return except for putting body and guestName into variables for further manipulation. Any advice?

[mehh]

Global variables are stored as propertys of the window object, so just do something like:

window.ajaxreturn=data

It can then be accessed by just using ajaxreturn as a global, or as a property of window.

[bobbonew]

Well no I know how to access data which is where the return text is stored in. I just wish I could figure out a way to do something like:

alert('Your body is: ' + data.body);

But data just has this in it: (if I alert it it says:)

alert(data);

Array
(
[body] => Your not really funny.
[guestName] => bobbonew
)

[whoisgregg]

In your PHP script, how are you returning the data? Are you using print_r() or are you echo'ing a json_encode() string?

[Gibble]

how about

alert(data['body']);

EDIT:
or is the response coming back as a string instead of an array?

alert(typeof data);

if it's not an array, you'll need to post the code from the web method you are calling

[edited by: Gibble at 9:38 pm (utc) on June 8, 2009]